Theory and analysis of ornament applied to the work of elementary and technical schools (1892)
Schauermann, François Louis · London, S. Low, Marston · leaf 183
Ornamentation by squares and stripes crossed. These crossings are determined by combination two and two, three and three, four and four, of the different systems of stripes, horizontal, vertical, or oblique. The squares, ranges or rows, and separated forms being combined in every possible manner,… … been under man’s manipulation, it is then exclu- sively decorative. Stuffs or kinds of decoration in colour imitate them ; they dispose or separate the seed-bed by being in contact with diagrams of disposition. The diagrams are of several kinds : here are the principal. 1. Diagrams determined by…
Decoration and ornament
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